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Bisher konnten die Menschen in Afghanistan das Internet weitgehend ohne Zensur und staatliche Kontrolle nutzen - doch wie lange noch? Wir zeigen, mit welchen Tools eine Kommunikation ganz ohne Internet möglich ist.

With its capacity for economic development and cultural connectedness, high-speed internet has become nearly essential to sustaining rural American life

With its capacity for economic development and cultural connectedness, high-speed internet has become nearly essential to sustaining rural American life

Tremendous technological innovation and transformative power are possible for the future if we re-energize the spirit of collaboration between the open-standards and open-source communities.

Take an Open Organization approach to DX to accelerate your plans Take an Open Organization approach to DX to accelerate your plans Accelerating Digital Transformation With An Open Organization Approach Since early 2020, CIOs and technology leaders have seen their roles intensify, as the global push towards “digital everything” in the heels of COVID-19 put them squarely on the frontlines of their organization’s survival. Orchestrating strategic enterprise-wide DX project...

ITUs Mario Maniewicz and ANATEL President Leonardo Euler to speak at the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance Global Summit Media Links Washington D.C., USA, 26 April 2021: The Dynamic Spectrum Alliance (DSA) has today announced that representatives from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the National Telecommunications Agency in Brazil (ANATEL) will be speaking at its upcoming Global Summit, the premier event for spectrum policy and management. DSA Global Summit 2021 ITU’s Mario Maniew...

castigating USAGM and OTF: "Unfortunately, they have withheld sufficient funding from these technologies for nearly a decade," she wrote. Swett declined NPRs request for comment. A spokeswoman said the foundation supported an "all hands on deck" approach and saw the agency as an ally, even if they disagreed on strategy. Packs prospects had accelerated once the White House launched an attack on the Voice of America for its coverage of the coronavirus outbreak in China. Bannon, who had advised Tr...

Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images Falun Gong supporters marched from Capitol Hill to the Washington Monument in July 2015 in Washington, D.C. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images Of all the disruptions unleashed by the Trump White House on how the federal government typically works, the saga of one small project, called the Open Technology Fund, stands out. The fantastical tale i...

Immigrants as a Weapon Signal was created and funded by a CIA spinoff. It is not your friend. Signal — the privacy chat app favored by the world’s leading crypto experts — is trending again. In the wake of Twitter and Facebook’s MAGA Maidan Internet purge (which was followed by Facebook’s announcement that it was gonna start siphoning data off its WhatsApp property), Signal shot up to being the top downloaded messenger app on the planet. The New York Times is writing about it. Edwar...

Gus Ruelas / USC Center on Public Diplomacy Originally published on March 11, 2021 3:10 am Early last June, the Open Technology Fund was scrambling for survival. The nonprofit fosters technology that enables people who live under repressive regimes to communicate securely. It is wholly dependent on the U.S. government for money. And the new CEO of the federal agency that subsidizes the fund had declared war on it. So Lauren Turner, the funds general counsel, turned to a familiar name for ...